Mounting NTFS in FC4

[BeanieBoy]

Hello,

I'm having trouble mounting an NTFS file system in Fedora Core 4. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab file: "/dev/hda1 /media/WinXP ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0"
And the file /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko is present. However, when I type "mount -a" I get the error "mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'". I used to be able to read this partition, I didn't use it for about a week, when I tried again it didn't work. Is it possable a kernel update caused this? Any help would be appreciated.

[smolloy]

This is a stab in the dark, but try this,

modprobe ntfs
modules-update

See if that allows you to do it.

[BeanieBoy]

modprobe ntfs comes back with "FATAL: Module ntfs not found." but i was unable to find a command called modules.

[BeanieBoy]

Sorry, I meant I couldn't find modules-update

[smolloy]

Make sure you're doing this as root.

[BeanieBoy]

I'm root

[spoon!]

Is it possable a kernel update caused this?

Yes, the NTFS kernel module is installed for a specific kernel. After you install a new kernel, reinstall the NTFS kernel module from here or with "yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)" if you have Livna.